IF you stop by the City of Pontiac, do not forget to sample a variety of unique dishes. Not only aloe vera you can try. Various menu such as rice-based porridge too hot and sticky rice lemang you must feel.
Seafood is one of the dishes which are found in Pontianak. There are many variants, but the most typical is the usual junk shrimp treated with a variety of flavors.
But of course the capital of West Kalimantan had not only had seafood. Rice-based snacks is also found here. Besides used as rice, rice is often processed into other dishes by the citizens of Pontiac.
Examples lemang spicy and sticky rice porridge. Despite bearing the name of the spicy porridge, but this dish does not taste that match the name. Almost the same premises Manado porridge, spicy porridge also contains fresh vegetables. Even vegetables are used more than Manado porridge. Perhaps, for orisional spicy porridge, vegetables that are used there are 40 types. Some small, among others, fern, yellow squash, long beans, kale, and sprouts. All the vegetables chopped and mixed in the processed rice.
"Actually, spicy mashed vegetables to the mixture depending on our tastes," said Wikeu, one of the typical restaurant employee in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. Spicy porridge sold in roadside Pontianak generally served with a sprinkling of peanuts and anchovies.
In order to comply with its name, you can just add the sauce in this porridge. Do not forget also to sprinkle lime flavor so typical of Pontiac more delicious porridge.
The type of rice used for this healthy menu is a finely ground toasted rice, then mixed with various spices such as galangal, chili, onion, garlic, black pepper, lemongrass, bay leaves, and of course the main ingredient which leaves kesum spicy mush .
If at first glance, the look is also similar to congee porridge Manado. Only, the difference is more legit spicy taste porridge and roasted rice so feel pleasure in this dish. According to the story, spicy porridge was first discovered by Sambas Malay tribes who live on the coast in the area of Pontianak and was popularized as a special food that the city was nicknamed a thousand rivers.
For by-the food, Pontiac also provides various choices. Only, fruit typical hand made of rice one lemang. Lemang a comestible, cooked with spices typical. In Pontianak, lemang called lemang sticky rice. Lemang itself means sticky rice, sticky rice while it means bamboo. So, lemang sticky rice can be interpreted as glutinous rice cooked in the container, the bamboo.
How to cook it, glutinous rice first entered into a bamboo tube which is then burned. Keep in mind that will determine how to burn lemang sense at last. In the process of the traditional processing, lemang burned using coconut husk. However, if processed in a modern way, the cooking method can vary. May use the oven, microwave, stove or gas.
"Lemang usually cooked with coconut milk," added Wikeu. Because it contains coconut milk, taste lemang be more tasty. In Pontianak, snacks are usually eaten with sticky rice tapai black, but sometimes also with meat or chicken rendang. No lag, lemang also commonly combined with the sauce. Dayak tribe lemang generally present in their traditional feasts.